Category: Bits and Pieces

I’ve already been to the swim meet and back, worked out at the dojo, and am going back to the swim meet.  Blogging will not be a happening thing.  However, I love doing open threads because all of you post such interesting stuff. Also, I’m using this space for a

. . . . and by visiting her blog, you can figure out which Republicans need to be knocked out in the upcoming primaries.  Oh, you don’t know what I’m talking about?  I’m talking about the House passing Cap-and-trade by a vote of 219-212.  Passage was made possible by 8

Beach Boys: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L284UgTLA3c[/youtube] The Boswell Sisters: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQH5C-mJtI[/youtube]

From Richard Baehr: 218 needed to win…Call your Congressman or Congresswoman, or congressmen in other states too. The Waxman Markey bill will do two things- 1. raise the price of energy in the US for all income levels (an energy tax that is regressive- it will hit lower income families

I’d never heard of Brian Ferry when I arrived in England many, many years ago.  One of my roommates was shocked:  “Brian Ferry is completely cool,” she said.  If you ignore the funny faces he makes and the weird bolo tie, this song makes her case: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk-hVaI0R24[/youtube] And here’s another

The other day, I posted my favorite Bee Gee’s song, Nights on Broadway.  I played it for my son and he, bless his heart, liked it so much he put it on his iTouch.  “That’s a great song.”  That’s my boy. I have to say, listening to these old dance

Rick, at Brutally Honest, helps put Jackson’s and Fawcett’s deaths in perspective.  He doesn’t diminish those two personal tragedies; he just, as I said, puts them in perspective.

Last week it was the Bee Gees.  This week, I’ve got the Andrews Sisters for you: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LnVFkicmg[/youtube]

I dashed it off quickly and it shows in inelegant and repetitious passages, but I think the point I was making is a good one:  Is Obama’s government planning unconstitutional invasions of citizen privacy?  Tell me what you think. UPDATE:  Funnily enough, today, for the first time in about ten

Obama’s weasel words versus Reagan’s profound statements about freedom: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt-RyUngNpQ[/youtube]

If you’re old enough, you remember one of the tag lines from an early talkie:  “Garbo speaks.”  I almost called this post “Bookworm speaks,” because it contains my first (and possibly last) effort at podcasting. As for this recording, it might play in other formats, but I know that it

Michael Ramirez is one of the best political cartoonists around.  Check out his cartoon for June 23, 2009.

I’ve made wonderful friends in the blogosphere and I’ve come to admire many bloggers whom I don’t have time to visit on a daily basis.  At intervals that are far too infrequent, I visit these opinion sites and check out what they’ve got on tap.  Here, in alphabetical order (’cause